Chapter 104 Grass Man (Tenth)
Xu Chen tied two wooden sticks into a cross, and then began to tie bunches of wild grass on it. Gu He Ju looked at each other in surprise.
"Gaga?" Qiao looked confused.
"No, this is called a straw man, tie up all these grasses..."
The language was simple, and Xu Chen could not explain carefully, so he could only signal the two to help quickly.
Although Gu Heju didn't understand, it did not hinder their role as close-fitting tools. Under the halo of the protagonist, his hairy body shook and quickly took action. The three of them quickly tied up a straw man.
The straw man made it simple and rough, but in order to look more like it, Xu Chen asked Gu He to look for some fur skirts he had worn before, and also looked for a few broken bows and some tattered vine armor sticks.
Not long after, the two of them carried a lot of things with their backpacks.
Xu Chen inserted the tied grass man on it, put on the fur, put on the rattan armor, and tied the broken bow to his arm.
“Wow!”
Looking at the straw man dressed up by Xu Chen, Gu He Ju couldn't help but scream.
"Fuck, how ugly!"
Looking at the straw man standing in front of him, full of primitive, rough and postmodern sloppy atmosphere, Xu Chen couldn't help but twitch his dressed straw man, pulling up the dressed straw man and stuffing it into ancient's arms, pointing to the highest position in the farmland.
"Go, put this straw man on the top of the slope!"
"Soga!"
Gu instantly understood, and carried the straw man and shouted loudly and ran down the ridge of the field to the hillside.
A group of women who were transplanting seedlings in the fields looked at each other, not knowing what happened. When they saw Gu actually running fast with a man, they couldn't help but scream.
"Yo ho..."
Soon Gu inserted this straw man into the highest point of the farmland and waved to Xu Chen excitedly.
"Soga!"
His eyes suddenly shone, and he couldn't help but exclaim.
Xu Chen covered his face, rubbed his skin a few times, and then took a deep breath.
The straw man was very hurried and looked so simple that he was terrible. He was the most failed handicraft except for the first rattan basket and the first pair of straw sandals. However, from a distance, he suddenly looked like he was standing alone in the farmland, holding a bow and arrow in his hand and looking at the river beach.
But I can't look closely. My head was tilted, and my body was tilted. My bow was tied to an arm. My fur skirt and vine armor ran dozens of meters away because Gu carried it. He was almost loosened, like a twisted zombie.
If it were seen in the dark, it would probably be a scary person.
But it tests the IQ of the beast during the day.
The group of women who were busy in the fields were obviously not as sober as Xu Chen, and their faces were dull. They didn't know who Gu had carried to the slope. They were curious and ran over to take a look, then shouted and ran back to communicate with the other women in excitement.
After only ten minutes, the women who were busy in the fields knew that Xu Chen had made a dummy and inserted it into the farmland to scare the beasts, and they all became happy.
Since the burning of wasteland, the entire tribe was curious. After cleaning up the seeds, everyone was more concerned.
Seeing that the wheat and bean seedlings inside grew stronger and greener than the weeds on the river beach, the entire Ba people began to understand Xu Chen's thoughts and were full of hope for the harvest in autumn. Therefore, Xu Chen arranged for Gu and Ju to patrol the farmland without doing anything else. Mu Ba and a group of adult men and women had no objection, and even encouraged and supported him. When he had nothing to do on weekdays or passed by, he would help drive away wild animals or pull out some wild grasses.
In fact, wild animals have been frequently visited by the farmland since the seeds sprout. At first, most of them were small animals such as rabbits and hedgehogs. Later, wild sheep, wild deer and even wild boars were visited, but the impact was not great. They usually just took a few bites around, until a few days ago, a group of wild deer ran into the field and caused a large area of disaster.
Although they all seemed to survive after transplanting under Xu Chen's guidance, their sparse appearance made Mother Ba and a group of women feel a little nervous.
Today, the damage area of this group of wild horses is even larger. Even if they can be transplanted and replanted, it will inevitably lead to a large reduction in yields.
The increasingly severe destruction of wild beasts made them feel nervous and worried.
So much food collected is used to make seeds, and so much manpower and time is spent to clean, sow and manage.
If this continues to be destroyed, this hard work may be completely lost and wasted.
In order to survive, collect, spin and weave, and hunt, tribes require a large number of manpower, and it is impossible to withdraw more manpower and time to deal with these endless things.
However, with this, you can almost use the real straw man to scare and drive away wild animals, greatly ensuring the safety of the farmland.
A group of women were busy working excitedly, and at the same time they kept looking up to watch the grass man, and were very excited.
Xu Chen and Gu Ju continued to work hard near the river beach, tied up and dressed up straw men, and soon got seven or eight, and inserted several into the farmland in the southeast, northwest and northwest.
Mother Ba and a few women came to help. From a distance, they saw hunters holding weapons standing everywhere in the farmland, and they didn't know each other. They were shocked. Therefore, they asked loudly about the situation from a distance. When a group of women working in the farmland ran over to explain, the few people approached and watched skeptically, and then suddenly realized.
Mother Ba's nervous shout alarmed several kiln workers and men working at home. Soon someone rushed over with spears, bows and arrows. After finding out the whole story, he kept admiring.
Not long after, even Ye and a few pregnant women who were caring for the elderly and young at home could not help but run over, and a group of children playing on the river beach led the pony to join in the fun.
Planting grass in farmland is the creativity that has slowly accumulated over thousands of years of human farming civilization.
It is not magical for Xu Chen, but for this group of primitive savages who have just gotten rid of eating raw meat and drinking blood for a few months, this is a creative idea that can be regarded as a magical plan.
Since the grass man was inserted, the farmland was indeed not damaged by wild beasts in the next few days.
Many animals even escaped far away because these grass men were intimidated because they stayed in the farmland all day long and did not dare to approach the farmland at all.
So Xu Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that these wild beasts from the primitive era are similar to those of savages, and their IQs are a bit owed, so they can't tell the truth about the grass man.
As long as these straw men can continue to work, this farmland can be preserved.
After Muba and everyone regained their confidence in the harvest of this farmland, in order to harvest as much food as possible in autumn, he struck while the iron was hot and arranged for people to start the first round of farmland weeding.
Since the slash-and-burn farming has begun, there is absolutely no possibility of giving up halfway.
Chapter completed!